On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:53:40 -0500, KC wrote:

On 1/12/2014 4:31 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:40:16 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

For boating purposes, I can understand the advantage of instant weather
updates from whatever the source. For those equipped with radar,
setting it to it's longest range is helpful also. You can often "see"
thunderstorm cells.

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We see them on the boat's radar all the time, and you can see the
motion of the storm system also. We try to miss them if we can do so
by nudging our course a little one way or another. It frequently
works, surprisingly enough.


Really, different mentality... While we are not totally adverse to doing
what we do (farming, biking, etc) in the rain, we do not want to do it
in a rainstorm that has lightning strikes... you probably don't want to
be in any storm..

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Rain by itself does not bother us but no one should head into a
thunderstorm if there is any way to avoid it. Rain, both here and in
the tropics, comes and goes all the time.